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Dennis_DeYoung
Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
edited August 2016 in Hardcore Husky Board
Was sexting with @CokeGreaterThanPepsi and noticed that UCLA had not sold out a home game since 1988 (when they played SC whose fans are in the same city).

To be clear, the metro pop of LA is 13 mil. Seattle 4 mil.

Also, another great UCLA moment... in '88 they were ranked first with a clear shot at the Natty (their first in what would've been 32 years at that point!), the eventual #1 pick and Heisman favorite (Troy Donahue)... and they lost to WSU at home.

A couple weeks later, they lost to USC at home. That was their last Rose Bowl sell-out. And Barry Sanders won the Heisman.

Best QB ever at UCLA was named Troy.

Welcome to UCLA football.
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,700 Founders Club
    And yet Mora was celebrating in our empty fucking stadium like it was 2014, because it was.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    It's hard to sell out a stadium with a capacity in the 95-100k range ...

    But seriously, that's beyond shocking. I'd have maybe believed the numbers IF you said it was for non-USC games ... but including USC??? Wow, just wow.
  • Dennis_DeYoung
    Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    edited August 2016
    Tequilla said:

    It's hard to sell out a stadium with a capacity in the 95-100k range ...

    But seriously, that's beyond shocking. I'd have maybe believed the numbers IF you said it was for non-USC games ... but including USC??? Wow, just wow.

    It's not hard if you're in... KNOXVILLE, TN! They seem to do it regularly. Same with Ann Arbor, Meetchicken.

    The funny thing was I was browsing through their attendance and sometimes was like, 'oh, they finally sold it out against Tennessee! Oh... wait that was an away game. Oh, there's one against Mich... no, that was away, too.'

    The population of the entire state of TENN is 6.5mil. Michigan is 10mil. LA's metro area is 13mil.

    Also: there are currently 43k UCLA students. 28k at UTK.
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    It's also 26+ miles from campus to the Rose Bowl. Google Maps says it takes 31 minutes. Sure, at 3am.

    If UCLA had a 90K stadium near/on campus like USC instead of a lousy place to try to drive to on a Saturday like bumfuck Pasadena, they'd have had several sellouts since 1988.
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    BearsWiin said:

    It's also 26+ miles from campus to the Rose Bowl. Google Maps says it takes 31 minutes. Sure, at 3am.

    If UCLA had a 90K stadium near/on campus like USC instead of a lousy place to try to drive to on a Saturday like bumfuck Pasadena, they'd have had several sellouts since 1988.

    Disagree
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098

    Tequilla said:

    It's hard to sell out a stadium with a capacity in the 95-100k range ...

    But seriously, that's beyond shocking. I'd have maybe believed the numbers IF you said it was for non-USC games ... but including USC??? Wow, just wow.

    It's not hard if you're in... KNOXVILLE, TN! They seem to do it regularly. Same with Ann Arbor, Meetchicken.

    The funny thing was I was browsing through their attendance and sometimes was like, 'oh, they finally sold it out against Tennessee! Oh... wait that was an away game. Oh, there's one against Mich... no, that was away, too.'

    The population of the entire state of TENN is 6.5mil. Michigan is 10mil. LA's metro area is 13mil.

    Also: there are currently 43k UCLA students. 28k at UTK.
    I only voted you down instead of giving you a WTF because of the quality of your research.

    If you couldn't tell that my first statement regarding the capacity was a whoosh ... you should pour yourself another drink
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    Riveting.

    Chinteresting
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,817 Founders Club
    The 88 bRuins were unbeaten heading into the coogit game thanks to a horrible call against our DAWGS
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    edited August 2016
    1998 >>> 1988

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtw1UvQ2oJ4

    (This was also the game where Reuben Droughns broke his leg)
  • BallSacked
    BallSacked Member Posts: 3,279
    We've also led the conference in attendance the past few years, but still...
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,817 Founders Club

    We've also led the conference in attendance the past few years, but still...

    NOC
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    UCLA is a fag school. lulz
  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,369
    Tequilla said:

    It's hard to sell out a stadium with a capacity in the 95-100k range ...

    But seriously, that's beyond shocking. I'd have maybe believed the numbers IF you said it was for non-USC games ... but including USC??? Wow, just wow.

    What the fuck Tequilla. I listened to your podcast you sound like a good guy but WTF.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    Swaye said:

    UCLA is a fag school. lulz

    With fag posters
    They are the Washington of the South
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,817 Founders Club
    The AP historical rankings have USC, UCLA and UW in the top 20 in that order. Aubbie came.

    Currently, not so much
  • BallSacked
    BallSacked Member Posts: 3,279

    We've also led the conference in attendance the past few years, but still...

    NOC
    Clearly you care. DDY does.

    Be less shitty than us, then pop off doogs.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    Baseman said:

    Tequilla said:

    It's hard to sell out a stadium with a capacity in the 95-100k range ...

    But seriously, that's beyond shocking. I'd have maybe believed the numbers IF you said it was for non-USC games ... but including USC??? Wow, just wow.

    What the fuck Tequilla. I listened to your podcast you sound like a good guy but WTF.
    I'm a little confused here ...

    I'm assuming that you're WTF'ing because I'm somewhat surprised that UCLA hasn't sold out a UCLA-USC game since 1988. Yes, that definitely surprises me. I don't personally think that UCLA's fan base is anything more than a flavor of the month (similar to UW in bandwagon fans when/if they have it going), but USC has a much more loyal fan base. I'd have thought that in the years where Petey's boys were winning conference/national championships that they would have brought enough people with them to possibly sell out the Rose Bowl. I know that there have been a few games during the last almost 30 years where that USC-UCLA game has meant something to at least one of the teams (a couple when it mattered to both of them).
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,817 Founders Club

    We've also led the conference in attendance the past few years, but still...

    NOC
    Clearly you care. DDY does.

    Be less shitty than us, then pop off doogs.
    If we used that criteria we could never pop off
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Passion said:

    We've also led the conference in attendance the past few years, but still...

    NOC
    Clearly you care. DDY does.

    Be less shitty than us, then pop off doogs.
    It's OK to pop off if you admit that you're shitty. Try it.
    HR, YK

    @Owen12
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    I'd say the fact they EVER sold out a game is pretty impressive given the size of their stadium and how shitty the viewing lines are. Of course the only one worse is in Compton.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    salemcoog said:

    I'd say the fact they EVER sold out a game is pretty impressive given the size of their stadium and how shitty the viewing lines are. Of course the only one worse is in Compton.

    The Rose Bowl sells out once a year rather easily ... if the game is big enough and the teams good enough it should have no problem selling out.